Daily Nugget:<\/strong>
King David knew himself quite well.\u00a0He knew he let God down many times.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe leader recognized that he deserved nothing from His Lord but rebuke and chastisement (vs. 1). Knowing what he deserved, the king pleaded for God\u2019s compassion and kindness to overlook his weakness and errors (vs. 2) and to deliver him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spiritual, mental, and physical battles (vs. 3, 4) David fought were devouring and tiring him (vs. 6). He was weary of all the hours and nights he thought and struggled over the obstacles he faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, no matter what he faced and what troubled him, he knew that he would be victorious. He was confident that God heard his earnest pleas (vss. 6-8) and would deliver him from the worrisome challenges and trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s obedient Christian should also have that type of confidence. When God knows we are relying on Him and is sure He will give us victory, we can have the same peace the King had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our tears and earnest pleas will not be for naught (vs. 9). We are on the winning side and will have answered prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s Thought: <\/strong>
\u201cFaith is the firm persuasion and expectation, knowing that God will perform all He has promised to the believer in Christ; and this persuasion is so strong and complete that it assures the believer of possession, even NOW, of those things for which we exercise faith.\u201d \u2014 Oliver B. Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\nWords to Understand:<\/strong>
Iniquity: sin, crime
Mercy: compassion and kindness that overlooks the errors and weakness of another
Neginoth: stringed instrument
Sheminith: a musical term thought to refer to eight strings or an octave. Others think it may be an eight-stringed lyre.
Supplication: request, entreaty
Waxeth old: grows or gets old<\/p>\n\n\n\nToday\u2019s Reading:<\/strong>
Psalm 6
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies\u2019 sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
8 \u00b6 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Nugget:King David knew himself quite well.\u00a0He knew he let God down many times.\u00a0 The leader recognized that he deserved…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_374886073925309_111414703907598":"","twitter_429426831_429426831":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[13,28],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalm","tag-hardships","tag-prayer","wpcat-72-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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